.Ian.$Okay, that's what I thought originally. So was I actually right? haha

I mean theoretically, if you stopped down (or had an ND filter) so far that your exposure would have to be several seconds and then used a flash to freeze the motion, it would work, but you would need a flash so powerful that I don't even know if you can buy one. I certainly don't have one.

EmmaGoldman$I mean theoretically, if you stopped down (or had an ND filter) so far that your exposure would have to be several seconds and then used a flash to freeze the motion, it would work, but you would need a flash so powerful that I don't even know if you can buy one. I certainly don't have one.

How do you freeze action with flashed then?

My understanding was that you stop down to cut out ambient so you don't get blur from that, and then use the flash duration, which will be way faster than the sync speed, to stop the action. So in essence, you're opening the shutter, but the light is coming from the flash, so your effective shutter speed is that of your flash duration.

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EmmaGoldman$I mean theoretically, if you stopped down (or had an ND filter) so far that your exposure would have to be several seconds and then used a flash to freeze the motion, it would work, but you would need a flash so powerful that I don't even know if you can buy one. I certainly don't have one.

Sklar$How do you freeze action with flashed then?
My understanding was that you stop down to cut out ambient so you don't get blur from that, and then use the flash duration, which will be way faster than the sync speed, to stop the action. So in essence, you're opening the shutter, but the light is coming from the flash, so your effective shutter speed is that of your flash duration.

That does all work in theory, but in order to make it work in broad daylight, your flash would have to be able to overpower the sun by a lot.

There wouldn't be much point in it anyway, since when you shoot in the pipe, the big white walls reflect so much light that you have plenty fill already.

EmmaGoldman$That does all work in theory, but in order to make it work in broad daylight, your flash would have to be able to overpower the sun by a lot.
There wouldn't be much point in it anyway, since when you shoot in the pipe, the big white walls reflect so much light that you have plenty fill already.

i thought you were generalizing that to all situations, not just daylight
makes more sense now

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akarlsenfirst time shooting the northern light, hoping to get to see more of it next time tho.

That's beautiful.

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KangbangTaken with a Nikon d300 with a Sigma 70-200 2.8. I took the photo. I'm not sure why my friend decided to make it black and white. It was super crisp and nice in the raw image.

I really like this actually. I'll never buy supreme, mainly because I'll never be able to afford it, but I can definitely see this as a great product shot for them or something. It looks simple, but that's what makes it look good!
Also what did you use for the backdrop?

Bmo.$the only thing i would suggest is to zoom out a little bit. you want to see the whole hat.

I thought the same thing when I saw it at first too.
Maybe just a tiny bit though, because you don't really want too much background on the right side because then, since the left hat is going out of the frame, it would look awkwardly weighted to the left. I don't know, just my thoughts, it's not a product shot for the company or anything though so it's not really a big deal either way.

My brother "took" this today with a AlienBees B400 in DAYLIGHT to show you can use strobes to capture action during bright days (I set up everything and told him to press the shutter button. He got better photos than I did -__-)

1337My brother "took" this today with a AlienBees B400 in DAYLIGHT to show you can use strobes to capture action during bright days (I set up everything and told him to press the shutter button. He got better photos than I did -__-)

1337true, but not saying you can't strobe in full daylight. Look at twood's stuff:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11084378@N05/6950222525/in/set-72157629140494132

I'll bet you $5 that was taken at less than 1/250th of a second, which means he either has. Camera with a better sync speed (his profile says he has a d50) or he used a flash that can use nikons high speed sync feature.

EmmaGoldman$I'll bet you $5 that was taken at less than 1/250th of a second, which means he either has. Camera with a better sync speed (his profile says he has a d50) or he used a flash that can use nikons high speed sync feature.

From the other thread

"crank the 1600 to full power, it has a short enough t.5 to freeze action, and overpowers sunlight. because of that, if I expose for the ambient light, the parts of the frame that are lit with strobes are actually a little over-exposed. If I shoot into the sun and it's lighting shadows the effect of shooting strobes in the day is more apparent, as the background can be a little darker.

depending on where in the frame I'm positioning the action, I can sync up to 1/650 using Paul C Buff triggers on the d300. one of the advantages of nikon is they do better with sync speeds. Although, because the shutter travels in the opposite direction of a Canon, if I am only trying to illuminate the top half of a landscape oriented frame, I have to turn my camera upside down... haha. "

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Sklar$From the other thread
"crank the 1600 to full power, it has a short enough t.5 to freeze action, and overpowers sunlight. because of that, if I expose for the ambient light, the parts of the frame that are lit with strobes are actually a little over-exposed. If I shoot into the sun and it's lighting shadows the effect of shooting strobes in the day is more apparent, as the background can be a little darker.
depending on where in the frame I'm positioning the action, I can sync up to 1/650 using Paul C Buff triggers on the d300. one of the advantages of nikon is they do better with sync speeds. Although, because the shutter travels in the opposite direction of a Canon, if I am only trying to illuminate the top half of a landscape oriented frame, I have to turn my camera upside down... haha. "

PurpleDinoIt looks really yellow, it may have been like that but I'm not sure. Here a picture of the moon from me last night:

yeah I just played with the white balance a bit. I see too many moon shots that look identical so I was trying to give it a little different look-- but there's not much you can change about a moon besides playing with WB

Just sort of playing around with different photography techniques at this point, both as part of a class and outside of class. I'm enjoying it; working my way slowly into more creative and difficult shots and especially shooting more people. Essentially started in October, but really just got into more digital stuff (versus black-and-white film) in January.

K_M$photo dump time, stoked on shooting a lot more with my pentax super t 50 1.2.

Damn, those tree trunks are really nice.

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